More Dick with Warren Beatty

In a weird copyright flex, Warren Beatty has produced the weirdest TV special of 2023.

Back in 2008 Warren Beatty produced a 30-minute TV special in which film critic and historian Leonard Maltin interviewed Beatty in character as Dick Tracy. The special aired just the one time, on TCM.

Beatty had starred in and directed the 1990 Disney film Dick Tracy and was involved in a lawsuit against Tribune over the rights to the character 15-ish ye…